Middle Aged
 

Some have been there,others have yet to experience it;but at the moment i'm going through it & it's like youve reached the peak & now you're on your way down.Days seem longer but the weeks & years shorter.The walk to town takes longer,on the odd occassion i can now be bothered to take it.The 2 hour frantic workout in the gym has become a 1 hour slog.An afternoon session of 5 pints in the pub has replaced 48 hour weekend benders.I've gone from medium to large.I never go out socialising during the week.I am not depressed about it,suppose its called maturing and is a fact of life.Did anyone else have a bit of a reality check when they reached this stage of thier lives....hang on i've cramp in my leg:D
And the only pills i'm on these days are prescribed:eek:

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Ah yes, but it beats the hell out of the alternative :)

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I can't really say I'm middle aged......well not unless I expect to live until I'm 120...but strangely I don't feel old. In fact I was first in the queue with my 13 year old niece for one of the big rides at a famous Queensland theme park........and I would still do almost anything for a dare.......I am looking forward to the time when I can find someone to partner me on the Sydney Bridge climb(lettie has volunteered but I'm not sure we can swing it to be there at the same time).

I LIKE where I am at the moment......I don't have to prove anything to anyone...in fact I am happier than I was in my thirties.

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Good grief, Maxwell, how old are you? :eek:

I'd like to bet I'm probably old enough to be your mum but I don't think I'm going down the slippery slope just yet. True, it takes a little longer than it used to, to get the musculoskeletal equipment up and running to full capacity on a morning. I need that 5 minutes sitting on the edge of the mattress stretching limbs etc. out of the slumber position into something resembling human shape but, hell, once it's twanged into place there's no stopping me. Have I slowed down? Of course I have, 'cause I've learned there's no need to rush.

There's a lot to be said for Middle Age. When you're taking things just that little bit slower you've got more time to appreciate everything around you (or despair about it, depending on your point of view). It's supposed to bring Wisdom too, though I'll reserve judgement on that about some of the Middle Aged I'm aquainted with.

Anyway, I reached this so called milestone some years ago and I've decided to stay there. Don't worry about living in your mid-life. It's a damned sight preferrable to the alternative. ;)

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Oh, West ender.......your post made me smile, but I do endorse everything you have said.

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Lifes a ****** , you turn around and its gone, hardest thing to do is look back and remember your Dad Grandad at the same age as what you are now and ask yourself "am I like that " :D :D :D

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I used to hear myself saying the things my mother said...now I hear myself saying things my Grandma said.
And someone recently recognised me because of the resemblance to my mum!

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It's a funny thing, that, Margaret. People used to tell me I looked a lot like my dad (without the moustache of course). Nowadays I look in the mirror, sometimes, and I see my mother looking back at me. She lived to be 91 - I prefer not to say at which stage of her life she's lurking in that mirror. :D

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There's no such thing as middleaged anymore.

A generation or so ago, people by the age of forty looked and acted old.

Whilst people like Julie Christie and Brian Ferry, both well in their sixties, are around looking fantastic, as well as the nearly half centurion Madonna, who can still easily get her legs behind her head in a skimpy leotard, there's hope for us all.

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How old is middle aged? I am 40 next year so technically I am now probably in the middle of my life (if I'm lucky). I still feel like a teenager, although a slightly more sensible, grumpier, less tolerant version..:D

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Lettie on that basis then you are planing to live to 79 are you. £9 befor 39 after so 40 is your middle age. Soryy but now more confused than a lost whale. :( :o

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Spuggie what've you been drinking?:D

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I generally work on the assumption that middle age is 15 years older than I am at present......I know it is daft, because using that logic, I am never going to be middle aged....ever.

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I reckon my parents are middle aged - and on that basis I'll never get there!